Oakland, Calif.- Police arrested six people in downtown Oakland for charges including vandalism, assaulting police officers and possession of explosives during an anti-police march orgainzed by Occupy Oakland.

Tensions between Oakland police and Occupy protesters escalated Sunday, a day after an antipolice rally downtown turned violent and resulted in six arrests.

Protesters pledged to hold weekly demonstrations against the police, who they say have been overzealous in enforcing no-lodging, trespassing and other laws to break up Occupy encampments.

"The solution is very obvious. All (Mayor Jean Quan) has to do is stop enforcing these laws," said Occupy Oakland activist Phil Horne. "If they set reasonable rules, we'll abide by them."

Clashes with police have been a hallmark of Occupy Oakland since October, when police made their initial clearance of a camp in front of City Hall that had become a gathering spot for economic injustice protests modeled on Occupy Wall Street.

"The solution is very obvious. All (Mayor Jean Quan) has to do is stop enforcing these laws," said Occupy Oakland activist Phil Horne. "If they set reasonable rules, we'll abide by them."

In other words, the police can stop enforcing the law, or the occupy crowd will ramp up the violence. There's another law that they ought to be aware of, against extortion. These are thugs, pure and simple.

Tensions between Oakland police and Occupy protesters escalated Sunday, a day after an antipolice rally downtown turned violent and resulted in six arrests.

Protesters pledged to hold weekly demonstrations against the police, who they say have been overzealous in enforcing no-lodging, trespassing and other laws to break up Occupy encampments.

"The solution is very obvious. All (Mayor Jean Quan) has to do is stop enforcing these laws," said Occupy Oakland activist Phil Horne. "If they set reasonable rules, we'll abide by them."

Clashes with police have been a hallmark of Occupy Oakland since October, when police made their initial clearance of a camp in front of City Hall that had become a gathering spot for economic injustice protests modeled on Occupy Wall Street.

Damn it Nadin, get your fat ass down there and get us pics to mock!!!! :mad::curse:

Odysseus

01-10-2012, 11:20 AM

Clashes with police have been a hallmark of Occupy Oakland since October, when police made their initial clearance of a camp in front of City Hall that had become a gathering spot for economic injustice protests modeled on Occupy Wall Street.

In other words, violence against law enforcement personnel has been a hallmark of Occupy Oakland since the first time they were not permitted to do whatever they wanted. They're just a hippy version of the Brownshirts, but at least the original Brownshirts wore brown because it was the color of the uniform, rather than an aversion to laundering their clothes.

Adam Wood

01-10-2012, 12:03 PM

:taser:

LOL!

Tipsycatlover

01-10-2012, 01:46 PM

It would be helpful to stop calling them protesters and start calling them criminals.

RobJohnson

01-11-2012, 01:22 PM

It would be helpful to stop calling them protesters and start calling them criminals.